"My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value."

Freedom, Lust, Pursuit, Value

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"My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value."

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"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."

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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

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"When the yoke is broken, the burden is removed."

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"There are so many people whose minds do not belong to them. There are so many people whose thoughts have been purchased by people. There are so many people who have made people kings and queens of their thought. There are so many people who cannot sleep because of people. There are so many people whose lives are a small percentage of their own self and a greater percentage of others. When the offenses of people occupy your mind, your mind becomes the offenses of people instead of your own mind. To have your own mind and to be your own self, free your mind!"

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